World Repression Newswire Archive

GREECE: Another trial for conscientious objector Lazaros Petromelidis

15-12-2004 13:25 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Lazaros Petromelidis needs your solidarity!

Senior Italian riot police to be tried over Genoa attack

14-12-2004 07:14 | Repression | World

Twenty-eight Italian police, including some of Italy's most senior riot and anti-terrorist officers, are to be tried for their role in an assault on a school in Genoa during the G8 summit in July 2001. Dozens of anti-globalisation activists sleeping in the school were injured in the raid.

Ukraine: Next Political Elite or "We Are Together And Not to Be Defeated"?

13-12-2004 16:05 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This article was written by two anarchist activists from Kyiv, Ukraine during the second week of the protests - and has been translated just now. "During two weeks of mass protests people get to know - how to cooperate, how to trust each other and how to call the authorities to the answer"

EGYPTIAN AND INTERNATIONALS PROTEST AT GATEWAY TO SINAI

11-12-2004 12:05 | Repression | London | World

Two hundred Egyptian activists and fifty from Europe were prevented
from reaching Egyptian Rafah by security forces at Bahlouza, the
entry to North Sinai yesterday. The group was accompanying hundreds
of tons of relief supplies for the people of Rafah collected by the
Egyptian Popular committee in support of the Palestinian Intifada.
While the food and blankets were allowed to reach the border at
Rafah, the solidarity demonstration planed for Rafah was held in the
middle of the desert underneath the welcome arch of North Sinai

US Election Fraud: something BIG happening

11-12-2004 11:03 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Compilation of latest information including detailed quotes.
Note there are also nationwide demonstrations planned for Sunday 12th -
The 51 Capital March

http://www.51capitalmarch.com/stateContacts.shtml
"You Stole My Vote"

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European Observation Mission to US Elections: Findings

11-12-2004 07:33 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Summary of the preliminary findings of the Election Observation Mission (EOM) of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) - ref.

http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2004/11/3779_en.pdf - on the US Elections of 2 Nov 2004. Note that the Mission was terminated at the moment the polls closed.

BRAVE NUDE WORLD ?

09-12-2004 13:42 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

You've just got to accept it the next time you travel with your good looking wife or daughter: of course their breasts are firm like Semtex. And when they or you are fingered, just ask yourself: where's your spine ? Are you going to protest ?

Ruddock foreshadows new terrorism laws

The new laws will allow police to access emails and mobile phone SMS messages, enable wider use of surveillance devices, and protect sensitive national security information during terrorism trials.

[ENCOD] REFORM FRIENDLY REPORT APPROVED IN THE EP

On Thursday 2 December, the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament approved the report to the Council on the European strategy on fighting drugs (2005-2012). The report will have to be voted by the plenary session of the European Parliament on 15 december, in Strasbourg.

Isolation, psychiatric treatment and prisoner' control

We express concern that 'Corrections Health' now 'Justice Health' psychiatrists 'can' prescribe over the recommended dose, without clinical &/or peer review?

Prisoners can, and have died as a result of injectable anti-psychotics, and that this is a worry regarding Deaths in Custody, as well as being an extremely harrowing experience to undergo if it doesn't kill you.

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Ban on the Right to Protest - 10 arrested

06-12-2004 09:50 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

Following the ban in Manchester on the regular Saturday picket in support of Palestine outside Marks & Spencer, the police arrested 10 demonstrators.

5 Canadian Muslims Detained Without Trial for last 4 years

05-12-2004 22:07 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

In Canada, five Muslim men remain detained without charge or bail on secret evidence neither they nor their lawyers are allowed to see. They have been detained under Security Certificates, signed by two federal ministers, at the request of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). They have been behind bars for periods ranging from eighteen months to over four years, denied a fair trial, and are at risk of deportation to torture and death. The Security Certificate process was recently denounced in a letter to Anne McLellan from over sixty legal experts and law unions.

"There are bodies the Americans threw in the river"

03-12-2004 20:18 | Anti-militarism | Repression | London | World

Fallujah Refugees Tell of Life and Death in the Kill Zone

UKRAINE GET IT IF YOU REALLY WANT

03-12-2004 17:51 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

In the short term, if Ukrainian people manage to get rid of censorship, systematic police brutality, corruption and state ordered killings, that in itself will be a victory. But in the long run, something new has been born. Call it “civil society” or “autonomous networks of resistance”, whatever it’s called, it will influence future events and, hopefully set an example to people everywhere

nano protests

03-12-2004 04:21 | Indymedia | Repression | Technology | World

this protest news is slightly out of date but it should get you going. big up all tha true demonstrator!

Befitting Behaviors

30-11-2004 20:42 | Anti-racism | Repression | World

As an American, fearful for her National Guards' "re assignment" in ongoing occupation of Iraq, I am apprehensive and sickened by the role model our Israeli allies present in managing military standards and Occupation.

Senior judge calls for DNA database

29-11-2004 00:30 | European Social Forum | Repression | London | World

The law lords were told in a recent case that of more than 130,000 retained DNA profiles of unconvicted people, about 6,000 had been subsequently linked to samples found at scenes of crimes.

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turk gets 10 months jail for collating Kurd Stuff on DmOz

28-11-2004 08:25 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

makne writes "H. Ertas, a Turkish editor of the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org) has been sentenced to 10 months in prison after being found guilty of editing a category about the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)..."

Labour MP Michael Meacher, "Did Dubbya rig the election"

26-11-2004 16:53 | Globalisation | Repression | London | World

Michael Meacher smells something fishy in Bush's return to office. The evidence of fraud is not yet conclusive but, given the Republicans' record, it is all too plausible.